Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 28, 2019

Rat will tweet the news to you, Pig.

Pig, you’ll find the tabloids in the dairy section, with the “spoiled” milk and cheese

What if I’ve already read those? There’s a reason I don’t go to the library that keeps mostly books from the 50s and 60s.

Pig, Twitter of course.

Well, Pig can always read USA Today, or any of the once readable newspapers that Gannet has taken over, and ruined.

This is weird

Now we’ll never know what bat boy and the alien lizard people are doing!

I would more likely have use for books like 1001 ways to cook goat, 1001 one ways to be kosher while embracing pig, and 1001 ways to terminate rats infesting the kitchen and house, at the GROCERY store chains.

Actually also a bummer that Pastis does not have a rabbit character in this strip, which means I can’t make a joke about buying ingredients for Wabbit Stew here. So I guess, I should call “Rat” “Wat”. Which means, I—speaking in Elmer Fudd’s tongue—would need a book about 1001 ways to “tewminate wats infesting the kitchen and house”, to be sold at “the gwocewy stowe chains”.

And that chocolate better be vegan!

Is mankind really worth saving?

There are many fake news websites for that, Pig.

Hope? For mankind? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha..!!!

Tabloids = Hot Sheets ……. Croc Power !

Goat, you pretentious, sanctimonious git, you!

Why would grocery stores put books – any books – on their shelves when book stores are going out of business because people don’t read books any more?

Tabloids? Dumbing down America! Seems this generation can’t read a book with deeper thinking with values, and meaning, but today, it’s all nonsense, games and shallow thinking!

Yes – start with the Odyssey or Dante’s trilogy or Shakespeare or Hugo or something that is not 20th century navel-gazing — but better that tabloids!

Books and chocolate. An awesome combination.

After 20-40 years you have hopefully changed and matured enough that you can read the book from a totally different viewpoint.

Yeah, I can see the major chains now, putting classic lit alongside the “bodice rippers.”

Bookbub.com will alert you each day to books that are free or low priced. These books are normally $12-$15. And you can pick what you are interested in so the suggestions will be just for you.

Don’t hold your breath, Goat.

Ooh, how woke. Because that will sell. Wonder why the grocery store doesn’t do that? Stupid people are at their best stupid when making a fuss projecting how “smart” they are by mimicking the things that the people these stupid people think are smart do. And pedestrian, shoulda read it in high school crap like CitW is just the ticket. Grocery store would be much better off puttingone of Pastis’ books there. Better hurry though before he gets too woke and half of his market drifts away.

NO TABLOIDS?? I have to keep up with the life of Brad Pitt!!!!

Tabloids are not news they are, what I call,“not true trash”! :o{

Pig, read Daily KOS.

Remember Rona Barrett’s Gossip magazine? At least the title was honest! And admit it if you dare,some of the greatest celebrity pictures were in there…just sayin

Supermarket tabloids — the real “fake news” media! O<|];o)

Catcher in the Rye was the worst book I’ve ever read. I thought it was boring, negative and repetitious. How it’s a “classic”, I’ll never know.

Isn’t Salinger a tad racy for the grocery store? Maybe some Frost or e.e. cummings.

I only went to Chick-fil-a once, and they had a Little Free Library inside, which potentially could have classics. Say what you want about their other views, at least this feature is a nice touch. New editions might not sell well at the checkout line, but offer ’em for free and see what happens. Classics that are out of copyright are available free digitally from Amazon and other sources.

The Kroger-owned supermarket I go to has a “family friendly” line that does not display tabloids. They also have what passes these days for a fairly extensive paperback book section inside the store.

I went to my local library just yesterday. Town of 20,000, but the parking lot was completely empty. Guess that makes a statement of sorts. Old fashion me, still like to hold an actual book. I’m not a Luddite, I enjoy technology, I just don’t live and die by it.

Books at checkout counters may be a good idea, unless the person in front starts reading and holds up the line! We could use less tabloids. :D

A good friend gave me a Kindle. Now I download lots of good books for free! We have a wealth of good reading in this country. We just have to wade through the trash to get to it.

Make sure there’s some Stephen King and his son Joe Hill in those racks, too.

If the public library shuts down, where will I go to surf the internet and stay warm on cold nights?

I wouldn’t mind seeing some of the excellent books written a bit more recently, like Helprin’s Soldier of the Great War, or Rothfuss’ The Name of the Wind, to name a few from a long list.

Think you’re missing the point.

Hope for mankind? repent and believe in the Lord, Jesus.

“Men In Black” ‘Weekly World News’. I miss Bat Boy updates myself.

So he likes depressing books about not very bright, boring people. Or boring books about not very bright, depressing people. Come to think of it, that is what is in the tabloids too. Just in a more condensed format.

A book about adolescent angst (one of many, and not the best one), and Scott Fitzgerald’s wish fulfillment fantasy about rich people? That’s what Goat thinks is great literature?

Pig, TMZ & Buzzfeed, of course! If you read it there you KNOW it has to be true!

I miss the good old days when grocery stores used to sell comic books. I learned how to read from the Walt Disney’s Comics & Stories (especially the Carl Barks stories) that my mother would let me buy during her grocery shopping.

I’m pretty sure I can remember pocketbook racks by the grocery checkouts where the tabloids are now. (1960’s?)

Fux Snooze and Hersey Bars!

Fat chance you’ll get your wish, snooty Goat! Pig is more likely to find fulfillment, while Rat just gets older and even grouchier!

I read “On the road” for the first time 44 years ago I was 18 and everytime I reread in both versions , Italian and original , I am in the car with Sal and Dean , or Jack and Neal . even being on my couch thousands miles far from American highways . They call it Stendhal Syndrome .

“The hopeful depend on a world without end, whatever the hopeless may say.” —Neil Peart, RUSHAnd thus, Rat and Pig are Hopeless.

Or perhaps newspapers or something?

i like it when supermarkets like merket basket always have that one area with a bunch of books to buy. young me loved going over there and seeing the books in case there was anything I wanted to read. and then I discovered the library